Writer Maurice Gran working on a theatre version

Goodnight Sweetheart co-creator Maurice Gran says he is working on a stage play based on the hit 1990s time-travel comedy.

He and co-writer Laurence Marks turned the show into a jukebox musical in 2018, which played a small theatre in Essex ahead of a hoped-for West End run which never materialised.

But speaking to the Only Fools And Horses podcast, he says a live version – and possibly even a book – could still have legs.

Gran, 75, told the podcast: ‘Goodnight Sweetheart still exists on many levels. We’re working on a stage play of Goodnight Sweetheart. We're possibly going to do a book. We might even do some radio scripts.

’It’s a show which still has a lot of fans… it’s a well remembered sho compared to other shows from the same era.’

The show originally ran for six series on BBC One from 1993, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life thanks to a portal, which allows him to travel between contemporary times and the Second World War – having a relationship with a different woman in each era.

» Our two-star review of the 2018 show

Published: 12 Mar 2025